American-Hungarian pianist Julia Hamos studied with Christopher Elton at London’s Royal Academy of Music, with Richard Goode at the Mannes School of Music in New York, and with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie; she completed her education at the Kronberg Academy. A winner of the Sterndale Bennett Prize of the Royal Academy of Music and the Fidelman Award of the Mannes School, she has performed at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Beethovenhaus Bonn, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Liszt Academy in Budapest. She has also appeared at Poland’s Krzyżowa Music Festival, the Trasimeno Music Festival in Italy, IMS Prussia Cove in Cornwall, the Verbier Festival, and at Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World with Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Tetzlaff. A champion of interdisciplinary projects, she has collaborated with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the New English Ballet Theatre, and the theater department of New York’s New School. Her debut album ellis island, featuring works by Kurtág, Ligeti, Bartók, Schubert, Meredith Monk, and others, was released in 2025. Julia Hamos has been heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal as the soloist in Ligeti’s Piano Concerto and in Pierre Boulez’s sur Incises with the Boulez Ensemble, and performed her first solo recital here in March 2025.